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I hope you all had a Cool Yule
Dec. 26th, 2006 01:53 amor whatever in the form that you care to celebrate it in.
We got back from the observatory about half an hour ago. Had an excellent dinner, I made orange-flavored green beans, cheesy mashed potatoes, Parmesan crisps, and a pistachio/herb rubbed turkey breast. We also had goose, two kinds of stuffing, gravy for the goose, and some excellent cider. And WAAAY too many people! One of Russet's minions got married, so he brought his wife and stepkids to the observatory for Christmas and the snow (they're from El Paso, snow is a bit of a foreign concept for them). Then his wife's sister and hubby were in town.... and momma wasn't doing anything.... etcetera.
There were something like 20 people at the observatory, with a significant number under the age of 20. Quite a bit of bedlam. Fortunately I was in a dormitory kitchen doing all my cooking and avoided a lot of it.
So, loot! I gave Russ a copy of In & Out with Kevin Kline, featuring a 10-15 second open-mouth kiss between Kline and Tom Selleck. Russ had never seen it before, so we watched it very early this AM after having watched Monsters Inc. last night, another film she'd never seen. I also gave her a Waylin' Jenny's CD, they've been on Prairie Home Companion many times and Russ likes 'em. And I bought three CDs for both of us, a John Roberts/Tony Barrand, a Ditty Bops, and a Stan Rogers disc. Russ gave me a copy of Alton Brown's baking cookbook and a wonderful pair of house shoes from Brookstone. Marvelously warm shoes!
I guess that's about it. We're watching Hellboy on DVD, I picked it up while we were in Phoenix, yet another film that Russet hasn't seen. I'm looking forward to sleeping in for a couple of days and doing very little, though I will have to do some kitchen work tomorrow and finish cleaning all the stuff I dirtied prepping stuff to go to the observatory for final assembly. And we've got friends coming in at the end of the week, I've got to get the place a bit more decent for them.
Oh, and we got a little snow last night! Just enough of a dusting to make everything whiter. The storm that clobbered Denver moved away from us last Wednesday and we didn't really get anything after the initial dump. So we had a fresh, white Christmas up here.
Have fun!
We got back from the observatory about half an hour ago. Had an excellent dinner, I made orange-flavored green beans, cheesy mashed potatoes, Parmesan crisps, and a pistachio/herb rubbed turkey breast. We also had goose, two kinds of stuffing, gravy for the goose, and some excellent cider. And WAAAY too many people! One of Russet's minions got married, so he brought his wife and stepkids to the observatory for Christmas and the snow (they're from El Paso, snow is a bit of a foreign concept for them). Then his wife's sister and hubby were in town.... and momma wasn't doing anything.... etcetera.
There were something like 20 people at the observatory, with a significant number under the age of 20. Quite a bit of bedlam. Fortunately I was in a dormitory kitchen doing all my cooking and avoided a lot of it.
So, loot! I gave Russ a copy of In & Out with Kevin Kline, featuring a 10-15 second open-mouth kiss between Kline and Tom Selleck. Russ had never seen it before, so we watched it very early this AM after having watched Monsters Inc. last night, another film she'd never seen. I also gave her a Waylin' Jenny's CD, they've been on Prairie Home Companion many times and Russ likes 'em. And I bought three CDs for both of us, a John Roberts/Tony Barrand, a Ditty Bops, and a Stan Rogers disc. Russ gave me a copy of Alton Brown's baking cookbook and a wonderful pair of house shoes from Brookstone. Marvelously warm shoes!
I guess that's about it. We're watching Hellboy on DVD, I picked it up while we were in Phoenix, yet another film that Russet hasn't seen. I'm looking forward to sleeping in for a couple of days and doing very little, though I will have to do some kitchen work tomorrow and finish cleaning all the stuff I dirtied prepping stuff to go to the observatory for final assembly. And we've got friends coming in at the end of the week, I've got to get the place a bit more decent for them.
Oh, and we got a little snow last night! Just enough of a dusting to make everything whiter. The storm that clobbered Denver moved away from us last Wednesday and we didn't really get anything after the initial dump. So we had a fresh, white Christmas up here.
Have fun!
